Continued: Lehigh guard C.J. McCollum is a shooter, talker

“I think we’d play well together,” he said of Rubio. “At the same time, they’d have to guard us. You look at the NBA now and it’s revolving around two guards who can shoot and create and score for each other, so I think Ricky Rubio and I would be great, just like Steph Curry and Jarrett Jack and Brandon Jennings and Monta Ellis [in Milwaukee]. I like to say I shoot better than some of those guys.”

And he can talk with any of them.

He wants to pursue a broadcasting career when he is done playing and wrote for Lehigh’s student paper — “I’m a pretty good writer,” he said — even if he signed a document saying he wouldn’t cover the men’s basketball team because it would have been a conflict of interest.

“I can’t interview myself,” he said, “but God gave me a nice voice so I’m going to use it.”

When it comes down to it, the Wolves president of basketball operations trusts his eyes over advanced statistical analysis.

With Lehigh, C.J. McCollum established himself in the 2012 NCAA tournament by scoring 30 points against Duke, but broke his foot in early January of his senior year. He has recovered well enough to work out fully for NBA teams preparing for this week's draft.

Associated Press file

Lehigh’s C.J. McCollum thinks he and Ricky Rubio would “play well together.”